PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is important to Balance Central. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that this site collects, and the ways in which we use that personal information.

Personal Information Collection

We may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

information about your use of this website

information that you provide using for the purpose of registering with the website

information about transactions carried out over this website

information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the website services

any other information that you send to us.

Comments Collection

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

When completing a form on our site, your IP address, and if you are a registered user the username associated with your login, is recorded to allow us to connect and confirm requests are associated with a registered user and for analytical purposes.

Our contact form data is deleted every six months.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track visits to our website. Information is captured by a cookie and will include your IP address. No other Personally Identifiable Information is captured.

Using Personal Information

We may use your personal information to:

administer this website;

personalize the website for you;

enable your access to and use of the website services;

publish information about you on the website;

send to you products that you purchase;

supply to you services that you purchase;

send you statements and invoices;

collect payments from you; and

send you marketing communications.

Where we disclose your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, we may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing your data

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Updating This Statement

We may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other Websites

This website contains links to other websites.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to: